Gibraltar Update
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 at 10:39AM
Dennis Monokroussos in Gibraltar 2012

The Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival is a strong open Swiss event featuring a number of 2700s including Peter Svidler, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov and the sole leader after 7 rounds, Michael Adams. His 6 point total has him half a point ahead of ten other players including several 2700s (Nigel Short, Le Quang Liem, Mamedyarov, Krishnan Sasikiran, Zoltan Almasi and Sergei Movsesian). Leading the 2700s with the best tiebreak score, however, is Hou Yifan, who convincingly defeated Judit Polgar in round 7. In an earlier round, Polgar only drew with Humpy Koneru. Right now Koneru has five points, as does Zhu Chen, while Nana Dzagnidze is also in the group with 5.5 while Polgar has 4.5. (It's only one tournament and it isn't finished yet, but perhaps it's time for Polgar to find the women's world championship "interesting"?)

Round 8 is underway now, with Adams-Mamedyarov on board 1.

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